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,SHOE FASTENING. No. 290,625. Patented Dec. 18 1883.

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. BARR, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO HARRY P. PEARS, OF SAME PLACE.

SHOE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,625, dated December 18, 1883.

Application filed October 1, 1883. (Noinodeh) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. CHARLES H. BARR, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a view of the upper part of a shoe with my invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively a plan and edge View of the hitching device. Fig. 4 is a modification struck out of sheet metal.

The object of this invention is to afford a simple and effective means of locking the end or ends of the lacing strips or strings used in laced shoes, so that after the shoe has been laced up and the string drawn as tight as desired the free end or ends can be at once secured against slipping.

The invention consists in a rigid plate having two or more overhanging projections at a distance apart about equal to the thickness of a shoe-lace, around which the lace or string is hitched without tying, said plate having suitable means of attachment to a shoe.

More particularly, my invention is as follows:

In the drawings, A designates the upper portion of a shoe, whose flaps are made with the eyelets b and having thelace or string 0. Near the uppermost eyelet I fasten to the shoe a plate, d, having thereon two projections or buttons, 6 e, as shown. The representation is that of a single lacing, wherein one end of the lace c is suitably secured, and then the lace is threaded back and forth through the eyelets 1) until the top is reached. After drawing the lace c to a suitable degree of tightness, I take the free end and wind it once or oftener around each of the buttons or projections e 6, whose adjacent faces are concave or overhanging, so that the lace is locked by turning it around the buttons and held against falling by the overhang. WVhere the shoe is double-laced, thus leaving two free ends to dispose of, there may be a hitching device, (I e e, on each side near the top. The manipulation is much more convenient than tying knots in the lace to secure it, and once properly done there can be no slipping of the lace.

The precise form of the device may be considerably varied. The plate (1 maybe formed, as in Fig. 2, with points f, which are driven through the leather and clinched; or, it may be set on with rivets, in which case the rivets may be adapted as buttons or as holders there for; or, again, the buttons 6 0 may be made integral with the plate d or struck up therefrom.

Iclaim as my invention The shoelace-fastening device described, consisting of a plate, d, having the studs or buttons 6 e mounted thereon and formed with the points f f, adapted to pass through the leather and secure the fastening in place, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my ownI have hereto affixed my signature in pres ence of two witnesses.

CHARLES H. BARR.

Witnesses:

Tnos. J. McTrornn, T. J. PATTERSON. 

